Describes the foods, cooking traditions, customs, eating habits, and food sources of Japan, and includes recipes for rice, noodles, sushi, and other Japanese foods.

Part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down-time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames actually take readers through the process of preparing meals...

"A full-color cookbook that introduces American palates to authentic Japanese-style grilling, with recipes that skillfully blend traditional ingredients and modern twists to create remarkable meals"-- "American grilling, Japanese flavors: That's the irresistible idea behind The Japanese Grill. In this bold cookbook, chef Tadashi Ono and writer Harris Salat, avid grillers both, share a key insight--that the live-fire cooking we adore here at home...